Winner's announcement in Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2009 issue. Design: Tobias Ottahal2009 Winner - Vitaly Medvedovsky
Vitaly was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and immigrated to Canada in 1998. After receiving his Honours BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design, he completed an MFA in Painting at Concordia University, Montreal. Vitaly has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and Concordia's Hitting the High Notes Fellowship.
As the recipient of the 2009 Joseph Plaskett Award and the inaugural Winsor Award at Concordia University, MFA candidate Vitaly Medvedovsky is gaining national recognition. Born in the former USSR, the artist draws on fractured memories of the Soviet Union to illustrate a childhood home that fell apart only months after he left. Medvedovsky resists staying rooted in pure nostalgia by combining historic references with elements of fantasy; as his country of origin is nowhere to be found, he takes the liberty to fill in the blanks.
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